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While helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho on December 15. This action was in response to a ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » Events: Peru president grabbed, shaken during visit to Ayacucho
Lima, Jan 20 (EFE).- Peru’s President Dina Boluarte was grabbed and shaken on Saturday by a woman who circumvented security measures in the southern Andean region of Ayacucho, where 10 people were ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » Events: Peruvian families demand reparations for protester deaths amid reminders of a painful past
“If something happens to me, don’t cry,” Leonardo Hancco told his wife, Ruth Barcena, the morning of December 15 in Peru’s southern city of Ayacucho. The 32-year-old taxi driver and father of a ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » Events: She lost her partner in the protests. Then her twins. She’s still at it.
AYACUCHO, Peru — It was nearly two days after the bullet tore into Leonardo Hancco Chacca’s abdomen. Now his organs were failing. The heavy machinery operator had been shot while protesting the ...